Conan O'Brien

“I'll be honest with you,” David Letterman said at the outset of his very last TV show after more than three decades. “It's beginning to look like I'm not going to get 'The Tonight Show.'“ What he did get, on show No. 6028 Wednesday of the nation's longest late-night career, was a celebrity studded sendoff that reveled in nostalgia and, by the end, had also shoehorned in sentiment. There were some great lines in there, most notably Letterman himself saying, “You know what I'm going to devote the rest of my life to? Social media.” “When I screw up now,” he said, “And lord knows, I'll be...

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